Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress, measure, dancer and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and form icon, Hepburn was agile during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female abattis fable in Golden Age Hollywood, and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.
Born in Ixelles, a municipality nigh Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, she premeditated ballet with Sonia Gaskell, precedently moving to London in 1948, continuing her ballet training with Marie Rambert, and then performing as a chorus girl in West End melodious theatre marvellous.
Following less appearances in separate films, Hepburn starred in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, behind being spotted by French novelist Colette, on whose act the play was based. She shot to stardom for playing the conduct role in Roman Holiday (1953), for which she was the leading actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a one accomplishment. That identical year, Hepburn won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her accomplishment in Ondine. She went on to star in a number of lucky films, such as Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), My Fair Lady (1964), and Wait Until Dark (1967), for which she accepted an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recollection of her film arrangement, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from BAFTA, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of one 12 nation who occupy won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.
Hepburn appeared in fewer films as her vitality went on, devoting abundant of her later vitality to UNICEF. She had contributed to the organisation since 1954, then worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recollection of her act as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in December 1992. A month later, Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland at the period of 63.

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress, measure, dancer and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and form icon, Hepburn was agile during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female abattis fable in Golden Age Hollywood, and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.
Born in Ixelles, a municipality nigh Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, she premeditated ballet with Sonia Gaskell, precedently moving to London in 1948, continuing her ballet training with Marie Rambert, and then performing as a chorus girl in West End melodious theatre marvellous.
Following less appearances in separate films, Hepburn starred in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, behind being spotted by French novelist Colette, on whose act the play was based. She shot to stardom for playing the conduct role in Roman Holiday (1953), for which she was the leading actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a one accomplishment. That identical year, Hepburn won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her accomplishment in Ondine. She went on to star in a number of lucky films, such as Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), My Fair Lady (1964), and Wait Until Dark (1967), for which she accepted an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recollection of her film arrangement, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from BAFTA, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of one 12 nation who occupy won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.
Hepburn appeared in fewer films as her vitality went on, devoting abundant of her later vitality to UNICEF. She had contributed to the organisation since 1954, then worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recollection of her act as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in December 1992. A month later, Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland at the period of 63.